AT&T Uverse loves to push paperless billing [which I've signed up for] and loves to talk about how doing that for you helps you and them go green. Yet at the same time, they just started sending me a glossy magazine-sized program guide every month.

Over on the NYTimes blog and across the internet, everyone's talking about the ban that one prison put on Dungeon and Dragons. You can read about the ridiculousness here on their story about the appeal that was recently denied:

This was on MAKE today. It's not a photograph but instead is a scale model. The artist writes:

"This model is simply made out of faux fur (fields), cotton (clouds) and sifted tile grout(mountains). The perspective is forced as in all of my images, and the lighting effect was created by simply shifting the white balance."

My Milk Toof has got it going on. This person that goes by Inhae made some little teeth characters out of polymer clay and posts series of photos that tell a little story about the things that the teeth--icky and Lardee--are up to.

I take my job here at Serial Bus pretty seriously. And when I say seriously I mean I can go days at a time without a new post. That being said, part of my job is to also educate you about what's hip on the internet these days. And here are two videos that I don't so much understand.

1) 51 things in my room. This thing has over 7000 video responses and over 2 million views. It's stupid yet at the same time kinda cool. I get the feeling that everyone that made a video response was like "yeah yeah, ms boxxy lookalike, I see your stuff" and then found themselves making their own little video a few minutes later. It's like Seth Green in Idle Hands except instead of strangling people without being able to control it, you find yourself posting Youtube videos without power to stop yourself.

2) I'll let Brett Elrich educate you on the similar practice of Haul Videos [click on thumbnail below to be taken to video in new window]:[NSFW due to thumbnail?]

As posted on Joystiq, this girl (well, she's 21) recently got into the Guinness Book of World Records for having the largest Pokemon collection at over 12000 items. In fact, she says that since it was counted, the number is now up to 13,400 items sprawled through her mom's house. It took her 13 years to amass this collection (so a little more than 1,000 Pokemon things per year).

I think if I had a collection and had the 10 or so Snorlaxes that she has in the upper right hand corner, I would say 'ok, that's enough Snorlaxes and Mudkips now. Think the next thing I will put money toward will be an apartment of my own' "

Telegraph.co.uk also has a small article on Lisa Courtney's Pokemon Center Europe and how it takes over the entirety of her mom's house.

For work, I post listings to Craigslist. Over the last two months, any post that I post gets flagged and taken down in about an hour. I make sure every post I put up is different, I post with a variety of different headlines, and no matter what I do, I refresh in about an hour and I see that the status bar for that listing has gone from green (active) to red (flagged/deleted). I made sure to follow Craigslist and federal guidelines, but nothing helps.

So far I've had one post stay alive long enough to make it off the front page of results. Within 24 hours of being online, that post got me 4 calls/emails and 1 application, so it drives me to keep trying, but I can't seem to replicate that posting's success. I emailed Craiglist and they haven't responded.

Yet at the same time, somehow miscategorized spam posts like "Yòu can Öwn a home" go unflagged. Not to sound paranoid, but it would seem that someone is out to get me and the unfortunate thing is that if anyone flags anything, it just gets taken right down so there's not much I can do except hoping that next time I put a post online, my nemesis is on lunch.

edit: Tried with 5 more listings. All flagged and deleted. Updated image.edit2: I'm up to 20 posts in the past 60 days that don't last an hour.

The resident turned his breakers off again and let us know that his fridge wasn’t working. She also called Comcast and let them know her cable was out. When he came in to tell me about it, he, as a sidenote, explained that he loved it here, never wanted to leave, and that he was in contact with our owner about buying her “condo”. I explained that the apartments weren’t for sale. “Well I’ve been talking with the owner” he said. “Ok.” I said and she left, satisfied.

Sometime that evening he must have brokered some sort of late night sale. He started referring to his apartment as gis condo and told us that maintenance isn’t allowed to go into his apartment at night. We told him that they don't, but he says two men were captured on surveillance camera.

This may be related to last week when he informed us that someone had broken into his apartment [a.k.a. a Plexiglas panel on the storm door started to come loose].

I wish we had some sort of family contact number or something for him.

The image below is the reported origin of the internet's favorite phrase for disgust. As the NSFW video explains, some people in China got a hold of the English bootleg for Episode III and wrote their own subtitles track that was less than exact.

From Wikipedia: "The rules of the church — the Ordnung — must be observed by every member. These rules cover most aspects of day-to-day living, and include prohibitions or limitations on the use of power-line electricity, telephones, and automobiles, as well as regulations on clothing."